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v PILLOW SHAM HOLDER AND LIFTER. I N0. 350,470. Patented OOt.- 5, 1886.

{UNITED STATES PATENT @FFICE.

' SAMUEL ADAMS SOUTHER AND JOSEPH M..TAYLOR, OF LOS ANGEDES; GAL.

PlLLOW-SHAM HOLDER AND LIFTER.

SPECIPICATICfi-t form ng part of Letters Patent N 0. 350.470, dated October 5, 1886.

Application filed February 1, 1886. Serial No. 190,538. (No nodoh) 5T0 all'tchom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL ADAMS SoU'rH- ER, a'citizen of the United States, and J osnrn 'Angeles and State of-Oalifornia. have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pillow-Sham Holders and Lifters, of which the following is a specification.

,Qur invention relates to devices adapted to sustain pillow-shame in proper position to cover the pillows when not in use, and to lift andholdthe shamsout of the way when it is desired to use the pillows.

- Various devices have heretofore been employed for this purpose, among which may be v clasp theside arms of the frames.

mentioned that patented by F. T. Mayi'iard .February 19, 1851, No. 293,900. in which two rectangular frames, each formed by bending a continuous wire to form a rectangle, and looping one end of the wire around the other end thereof atthe place of union, the two frames being secured together by sliding bands which By this means an adjustable frame is formed having .=a"co nside-rable degree of rigidity, but which necessarily has a double line of wire upon the side ofthe frame which is secured to the bedstead, and requires a number of bands to hold it together, in addition to the loops in the wire. Iuotherdevices two wires are looped around each otherand the ends thereof secured to an adjustable rod which is secured to the bedstead, as shown in the patent of "Wm. Davis, dated January 16, 1883, No.

Various-devices have also been employed to secure the-frame in an upright position when the bed is occupied, among which may be mentioned-that shown in patent to \V. G. Foster, dated May 1,1883, No. 27 6,574, in which a single bar having an angular end and being arms ofa bracketby means'of a pivot passing the'bar and through the I 'arm'softhe. bracket, and the angular end of the bar extendsbeyond the slot far enough to fat the cadet the slot nearest come. into contact Withthe bracket and prevent the arm from moving when the pivot is the long end of the'arm, so that when the long end of the arm his elevated and the ofthe slot,

pivot is at the upper end the short end of the arm will impinge against the bracket and prevent the frame from falling down,

The object of our invention is to simplify the construction and increase the convenience of devices of this class, to avoid the necessity of any wire or rod upon that side of the frame which is attached to the bedstead, at the same ti me dispensing with the numerous bands to secure the frame together; also dispensing with the bracket and simplityingthe mechanism by which the frameis attached to the bedstead and islocked in an upright position;

also preserving the rigidity of the frame and adding to the convenience with which it can be adjusted, locked, and unlocked; also providing means whereby the frame will be antomatically unlocked in case undue pressure is brought to bear upon the frame to lower the sham; also to adapt the lock to beplaccd upon either side of the bedstead interchangeably, so that the position of the bed may be changed without affecting the convenience of the look. We accomplish this by means of the device described herein and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents ourdevice attached to the head-board of a bedstead, and locked in its upright position Fig. 2 illustrates the bend or loo'p forming the connection between the main arms B B. Fig. 3 illustrates the manner of connecting the cross-arms P P. Fig. at represents the locking device whereby the frame of the holder is caused to maintain an upright position when desired, the tape J being removed to give an unobstructed view.

is to say, two wires of equal lengths, B B, are

bent at right angles at a point as far distant from one end of each as may be desired for the width of the frame.

loop, 0 0, around the other, and is then bent at such an angle as to bring the ends in line with the other ends of the wires. The twoarms P P, thus formed, cross each other'and are bound The two wires are then: placed side by side, and each is twisted to' form a :ogether by means of the looped ring Q. The nanner in which these arms are secured by he ring is illustrated by the full-sized drawng in Fig. 3. The ends of the cross-arms l? P are bent to form eyes L L, and the wires re bent to form eyes E and F. The eyes L I and E are uniform in size, and are approxilately circular, but the other eye, F, is elongated to form a loop dropping slightly below the line of the eyes L L and E. Screw-hooks D D are screwed into the bedstead at the proper height at-the points to which it is desired the sides of the frame shall extend, leaving the open side of the hooks in position facing each other. The opening in the hook is just large enough to admit the wire of which the frame is formed, and the eyes E and F are slipped into the hooks, by which they are sustained. A tape, J, is then looped around one of the hooks D, and passed through the eyes L L. and then looped around the other hook so as to extend between the hooks and form a support to which the shams may be pinned. The tape is of sufficient width to extend over the opening in the hook and sufficiently close it to hold theeyes E F in place and prevent them from slipping out through the opening.

A plate, G, of spring metal, bent at one end to form a spring, is secured to the bed by the screw-hook D, which passes through it. The bent portion of this spring extends out from the bedstead so that when the frame of the sham-ho1der iselevated, as shown in Fig. 1., the bottom of the loop F ,will rest against the projection formed by the spring, as shown more clearly in Fig. 4. The purpose of this plate is to prevent the loop F from wearing intothe bed, and the object of the projecting spring portion 0 thereof is to act upon the lower end of the loop F when the frame is forced away from the bed and push the loop up, thus bringing the rounded end of the loop into the hook-eye and allowing the frame to be lowered. Without this device one would bend the frame in attempting to push it down without first raising it to bring the hook into the free end of the loop. As the lock is secured to only one side of the frame, and as the other side of the frame is universally pivoted tothe bedstead by the hook-eye and loop only one side of the frame needs to be raised to. unlock it and allow it to be lowered, and the rounded end of the elongated lockingloop Fwill so act upon the spring-plate when the arm is forcibly pushed away from the bedstead that the arm will be pushed up by the spring, thus bringing the end of the loop into the hook-eye and allow the arm to fall. If it is desired to change the position of the bed all that is necessary to bring the lock-loop upon the outer side of the bedstead is to remove the frame from the hooks, turn it round, and replace it with the lock-loop F upon the side of the bed desired.

In addition to securing the loops in the hook-eyes D the tape J serves to forni a convenientattachment for the Shams which may support the same as well as to be pinned thereto, and the arms I? serve to by pushing the eyes E and F to or from each other.

give rigidity I I a The cross-arms P P- serve to stiffen the frame and support the tape and shams. By employing the loop F and open. hooks D the frame is adapted to be turned end for end;

so that the lock may be placed upon either side of the bedat pleasure.

Now,what we claimasnew, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v l r 1. In a pillow-sh n holder, substantially such as dt scribed. the combination of the bedstead, a frame extending thereacross, the loop E and elongated loop F thereon, and the hook eyes D, whereby the holder is adapted to be locked and unlockedin its upright position by conveniently changed from one side bedstead to the other.

2. The improved means-for securing pillow.-

of the lowering and raising one side of the frame,and whereby the locking device is adapted to be sham-holder frames to bedsteads, consistingfas;

set forth, of screw-hooks or'eyes screwed to the bedstead, eyes or loops attachedfto the frame of the holder,- and the stripof tape looped around the hooks or eyes and extending between them, as specified, all in combination with each other and with the bed and the frame of the holder, substantially as set forth.

3. In a pillow-sham holder,the improved device for locking the frame in an upright ICO position, consisting of the combination of a frame pivotally secured to the. bedstead 'by one of its sides, an e ongated loop, F, at the other sid. of the nan-.e, and a hook-eye passing through the loop F and secured to "the bedstead, all being in combination with each other and the bedstead, as set forth.

of the elongatedloop F, attached byone end rro to the frame of the holder, the securing-hook;

D, attached to the bedstead, and the springG 0, arranged substantially as set forth, where-f l e by force applied to the frame to.low'er the shams when the holder is in its, upright po sition will cause the loop to be elevated, thus automatically releasing the arm and allowing F v i it to fall. A

meeting-tape J, and hook D, all in combinaf tion, substantially as set forth. SAMUEL ADAMS J. M. TAYLOR. Witnesses:

Jr It. Your 5ND, ELLA LECHLER,

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